Happy Friday everyone! I'm enjoying the ride. I'm combining DJ with the 5:2 diet, as intermittent fasting intensifies the health benefits and also puts me off drinking pointless calories, even on non-fasting days.
I do have a bottle of rose in the fridge that I've had an occasional glass of, over the course of the week. Doing the 5:2 diet has made me much more conscious of what's going down my neck, so it's altered my mindset from "oooh look, I just opened a bottle of wine, this is glass #1, here goes, who knows where this will end" to "here's one glass of wine to enjoy tonight, let's savour it slowly." I can honestly say I get more pleasure out of that than guzzling.
Fitness stuff is helping, e.g. this: www.onebodyla.com/newyearchallenge
Hope I'm not sounding too smug. I'm finding it fairly easy now to adjust my habits like this, but there have been times in the past when it was much more difficult. I remember one particular very unhealthy relationship, years ago, when my day used to start with a glass of wine and a fag, and I reached a point where I just could not imagine doing things any differently. I felt helpless and lost. The first step of course was to LTB 😛 but then setting up new habits is not as hard as it seems, if you insist on it to yourself. You just have to be consistent for a week or so and then it all starts to come more naturally.
Very impressed by PPs who have managed to get through stressful situations without pushing that "ah, fuck it" button.
So, here we all are, Week 1. "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again!" 😊